Vantage | June 2024

Vertex Portfolio News

Here are the latest updates on our portfolio companies across the Vertex network. Stay connected by signing up for our monthly newsletter here.

• Bicycle Therapeutics (HC & Growth) Announces $555 Million Private Placement Equity Financing
• CARV (China) brings on Animoca Brands as strategic investor and node operator
• EyeBio (HC) to be acquired by Merck
• Firefly (Israel) raises USD23M in funding
• X-Times-DA (Growth) secures series B funding to boost electronic design automation

• Nium (SEA & India, Growth) partnered with Borderless AI to revolutionize cross-border payments in the EOR industry
• Nium (SEA & India, Growth) partners with Emirates NBD to transform global cross-border payments in the Middle East
• Evisort (US) Announce Partnership with Icertis to Accelerate Contract Intelligence

• Vectara (US) partnered with Incorta to launch the first Operational GenAI

• 17LIVE (SEA, India & Growth) appoints ex-Ripple director Joji Koda as CIO
• Adaptive Shield (Israel) launches global partner scheme for SaaS security growth
• CARV (China) announces decentralized node sale to revolutionize data ownership in gaming and AI
• Evisort (US) Integrates with Microsoft Copilot
• ElevateBio (HC) Announces New U.S. Patents for Lead Life Edit  CRISPR Systems and Adenine Deaminases Enabling Advanced Gene Editing Techniques
• Guesty (Israel) acquires Rentals United, expanding market leadership
• Guesty (Israel) Exemplifies Enterprise Offering by Boosting Checkmyguest's Airbnb Ranking
• Harbour Biomed (China) subsidary Nona Biosciences Announces Global License and Option Agreement with AstraZeneca for Monoclonal Antibody to be Developed into Novel Tumor Targeted Therapies
• Indapta Therapeutics (HC) Awarded $4.5 Million by CPRIT to Advance Clinical Development of its Allogenic Natural Killer Cell Therapy
• LaunchDarkly (US) Unveils Software Release Platform for the “Ship at the Speed of Now” Era
• LeaseLock (US) announce the addition of Andrew Bowen as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
• Licious (SEA & India) turning omnichannel with five stores in Bengaluru by June
• Licious (SEA & India) eyes IPO in 24 months, 500 stores in 5 years
• NIUM (SEA, India & Growth) selected by Online Travel Leader, HappyEasyGo for Virtual Card Payments
• Nucleai (Israel) Appoints Vikas Ahuja as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships to Enable Diagnostic Deployment and Commercialization at Scale
• Neumora Therapeutics (HC) Announces Initiation of Phase 2 Study of Navacaprant in Bipolar Depression
• Obsidian Therapeutics (HC) Appoints Dana Alexander as Chief Technical Officer
• Obsidian Therapeutics (HC) Announces Positive Clinical Data from OBX-115 in Patients with Advanced Melanoma at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting
• VGS (US) Surpasses 3 Billion Tokens After Transformational Year in Payments